It’s official: Katie is now a reader.
She reads every chance she gets. She can read almost anything all of a sudden.
She is often found like this.
How can I justify getting upset when she’s reading? Even if she is supposed to be going chores or school work? I love it!
I have to be careful: she will even pick up my books and try to read them. Now, it’s not like I have 50 Shades of Grey (ew!) lying around or anything, but she needs to read her own books and stop dropping all my bookmarks!
Tori read Good Night, Gorilla to Alex (and Katie) since it’s G for Gorilla week for Tot School.
It was precious. He even has his gorilla pillow pet! aw! He was so cute and attentive. I love it.
Alex decided he needed some quiet time and started looking through his Bible books. He loves this Baby’s First Bible!
They’ve been in the basket for years and I love it that he’s finally discovering and enjoying them! He’s reading Baby’s First Prayers.
Finishing up word family work
Word family sorting center with moving trucks and boxes
Artistic Pursuits: landscape drawing
Morning work math page with fractions and even/odd introduction
Last week, Tori started her first season of track and field now that she’s 6.
Honestly, she could have begun at age 4 if they’d have let her. She loves it.
Here are her awesome track shoes, cuz when we do something, we need new shoes, do I hear an “amen”?
Most educators celebrate Read Across America week.
Launched in 1998 by the National Education Association (NEA) and guided by a committee of educators, NEA’s Read Across America is the nation’s largest celebration of reading. This year-round program focuses on motivating children and teens to read through events, partnerships, and reading resources that are about everyone, for everyone.
Many individuals and organizations have stepped away from focusing on Dr. Seuss’s birthday for Read Across America week.
We celebrate diverse authors and subjects. Many teachers and parents eschew Seuss for other, better, more diverse choices.
While my kids were little, I never knew or considered Dr. Seuss books as anything but cute rhymes.
I have an entire bookshelf full of Dr. Seuss books and I’m so upset about it.
Instead of overusing and misusing the word “cancel” why can’t we just say “criticize” and “critical”? Don’t we want to model and teach critical thinking and literary analysis?
Do you know the Truth about Seuss?
It is NOT “cancel culture.” It is facing consequences.
A popular homeschool blogger comments about censorship.
So many Dr. Seuss stories are iconic – memorable traditions we read and watch every year.
I think as white people, we tend to overlook subtle, covert, and even overt racism and make excuses for the writer or artist. We wave it away as “a sign of the times” or “how it was back then.”
This is laziness.
It’s important we reevaluate what we expose our kids to and if we continue to read and watch these stories, we do so critically and with more awareness and discuss these issues with our kids. We owe it to them.
We went to story time at the library and got neat coloring pages!
Rhyming words sheets
Left foot, right foot sheets
Putting stickers on all the F’s
Where has the time gone? It’s flying by!
We’re loving First Language Lessons.
The girls wrote the full names of everyone in our family. This took a little effort and explaining. The girls each have two middle names, to honor my family name that will not be carried on since I’m an only child. Bubba has three middle names since he’s the only boy. We had to honor grandpas!
Here are the sentence cubes I mentioned last week. We made silly sentences with them. “The happy frog shut his mouth.” “The green frog slides on the lily pad.” We reviewed nouns and learned about verbs and adjectives. I used the Montessori grammar symbol 3 part cards to help.
and an adjustable craft box from Walmart (I think this is the one). Tori is almost a fluent reader!
Well, we’ve been displaced from our school room for almost 2 weeks, but we’ve managed to get some stuff done.
The girls love Funnix and now they’re doing the math one too! Katie actually prefers the “numbers game” and I have to make her do the reading one first and then she can do the math one as a reward. Too funny!
Katie was playing the bingo review from You Can Read. I’d call out a word and she’d say, “I’m gonna catch you, ‘my’!” It was just precious.
CDs and using the printables here.
The girls have been showing lots of signs of reading readiness.
I’ve gathered some reading materials to help them learn as they’re ready.
There’s no need to rush or push.
We do only as much “work” as they desire at this age. Often, they beg for more.
I use printables, manipulatives, games, videos, apps to encourage their reading interest.
I print and laminate lots of items for reuse. They’re great for portability. We “do school” everywhere in the house, back yard, library, in the car…
We’re starting the 2nd unit and already the girls are showing great improvement!
We also love the LOTW K4 Expansion pack from Confessions of a Homeschooler.
We are LOVING these You Can Read printables.
Fun sight word puzzles from You Can Read:
Cute sight words mats from Mama Jenn
Then soon I find them reading on their own!
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